Location El Escorial, Spain Type Non-movable Designated 1992 Province Community of Madrid | Architectural style(s) Neoclassical Criteria Monument Reference no. RI-51-0007308 | |
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Address Av. de los Reyes Católicos, 28280 San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain Similar Casita del Infante, Silla de Felipe II, El Escorial, Mount Abantos, Casa del Labrador | ||
The House of the Prince (Spanish: Casita del Príncipe) is an eighteenth-century building located in El Escorial, Spain. It was designed by the neoclassical architect Juan de Villanueva as the private residence of the heir to the Spanish throne Charles, Prince of Asturias. It was constructed in the 1770s.
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The word casita is the diminutive of the Spanish word for "house". Such buildings gave their royal occupants the opportunity to escape some of the formalities of court life. The Petit Trianon at Versailles offers a French example of the phenomenon.
The building and its gardens are set in parkland.
Interior
The artwork inside includes a Sala de Porcelana on the upper floor. This room features jasperware plaques in neoclassical style. Reminiscent of the work of the English Wedgwood company, the plaques were made in Madrid in the 1790s by the Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro.
Conservation
The building was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1992.